Procedure For Eating

Before eating do vyapaka shoaca properly with cold water. In an extremely cold climate use lukewarm water. The system is : wash the arms, the face, the legs,the neck, and the genital organs. Then, keeping the eyes wide open ,hold a mouthful of water and gently splash the the eyes minimum of twelve times.
Before sitting down for a meal, invite whatever persons are present around you and share your food with them. If they do not want to share inquire whether they have enough food with them or not.
At the time of eating find a comfortable sitting position. It is better to eat in company than to eat alone. Bo not sit down to if you are in an angry mood or in a debased frame of mind.
It several people are eating together form the same plate, make sure that sick persons do not take part. Otherwise healthy persons may become infected. There is no harm, however in eating together from the same plate if there is no contagious disease among the participants. Rather, this is a nice thing to see.
It is good to take food when the main flow of breath is through the right nostril. Even after meal, it is good if the flow of breath is mainly through the right nostril and continues for some time, because that is the time when the digestive glands start secreting a sufficient quantity of fluids to help digestion.
Eating when one is not hungry or only half hungry is very harmful to the health. so is eating rich food for days together or overeating tasty and sumptuous food out of greed, or not taking rest after the meal before running off to the office or filling the stomach with food. All these habits are harmful to the health.
After finishing the evening meal take a short walk. This is very beneficial to health.
Aharya-
In every object of the universe, one of three attributes - sattva, rajah and tamah- 
Will always be predominant. So food is also divided into three categories according to the dominancy of the attributes.
(1) Sattvika Ahara : All the staple food -grains such as rice, wheat, barley, etc.;all the pulse except masur[an orange-coloured lentil]and kesari; all fruits and roots; all kinds of vegetables except violet-coloured carrots, white brinjals[white eggplants],onions, garlic and mushrooms ;milk and mild products; all green and leafy vegetables except red puin and mustard.

All varieties of spices except garam masala* and all kinds of sweets, can be taken.
A sattvika diet is required for those who practice asanas. Those who find it difficult ot give up the habit of rajasika food all of a sudden may eat a piece of haritakii [myrabalan] after the meal. Those who take sattvika food should avoid taking a large quantity of mustard or mustard change over to sattvika food and tamasika food-eaters should try to give up such food as earyl as possible. For the avadhutikas of ananda marga there is only one kind of food, sattvika food.
All foods that are beneficial to both body and mind are considered sattvika.
(2) Rajasika ahara : any food that is beneficial to the body but is neutral to mind, or vice versa, is called rajasika. Foods that do not fall into the sattvika or tamasika categories are of rajasika nature. In certain countries where there is a heavy snow fall, rajasika food can be treated as sattvika and tamasika food as rajasika.
(3) Tamasika ahara : all kinds of foods which are harmful to either the body or mind and may or may nao be armful to the other are called tamasika.
Stale and rotten food, the flesh of large animals such as cows and buffaloes, and all types of intoxdicants,are categorised as tamasika.
Small amounts of tea, cocoa and similar drinda which do not exite a person to the point of losing his/her senses are in the rajasika category.
The milk of newly-calved cow, white brinjals, khesarii dal, green vegetables of the type or red puin kor mustard and tamasika. Masur dal cooked for one meal will become tamasika be the next meal.
Meat-eating-
Persons who have a strong desire for eating meat and those who eat meat out of necessity shall eat only meat from a male or castrated animal. No one should knowingly eat the meat of a female animal. One should not eat even a domestic female fowl.
Do not kill a fish which is one-fourth or less of its normal adult size. Also, do not kill a fish if it is in its infancy or its pregnancy. For instance, at present the female hilsa fish of the Indian ocean is normally pregnant or in its post-delivery state form Sharadotsava[mid-autumn] to the full moon of the Indian month of Phalguna.